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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
2. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?
3. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?
4. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the rhetorical effect of the diction used in the following description of the setting at Oak Street Beach: "The lake had turned hot pink, rose rapture, pearl amethyst with dusk, then washed in night black with a ruff of silver foam. Beyond a momentary horizon, silent bolts of heat lightning throbbed" (234)?
2. What do the first paragraph's details about the father's car convey about the family's social class?
3. What point about the relationship between men and women is made by the details the narrator observes on his train ride home after the night at Oak Street Beach?
4. What plot events--one immediate and one later--are foreshadowed by the narrator's description of "the bodies of lovers...visible in lightning flashes, scattered like the fallen on a battlefield" (234)?
5. What does Gin dream about the dead woman and her grandmother's cottage?
6. Explain the relationship of the story's title to the Amichai poem excerpt used as an epigraph.
7. What does the narrator say might have happened if the dead woman had washed up beside them while he and Gin were trying to have sex on the beach, and why is Gin so offended?
8. When the narrator and Gin are on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the people along the Gold Coast doing, and what thematic ideas does his description convey?
9. How is the From Here to Eternity love scene evoked ironically when the narrator and Gin are on the beach?
10. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of free will in "We Didn't." Be sure to support your assertions with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of comic techniques in "We Didn't." Identify the techniques that are used as you offer your ideas about the purpose of including humorous moments in the story. Use quoted textual evidence to support your assertions.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the symbolic nature of Gin's dreams about the dead woman. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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